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Offers resources on cardiovascular disorders including signs and symptoms, risk factors, prevention, diagnosis, support, and treatment for diseases or disorders such as heart disease, heart attack (acute myocardial infarction), stroke, congestive heart failure, and aortic aneurysm.
 Heart Attack
The Heart and Stroke Foundation provides information about heart, stroke and healthy living in Canada
Source: Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
Together heart disease and stroke are the main causes of adult deaths in Canada. You can lower your risk by making healthy choices.
Source: Canadian Health Network
Cardiovascular diseases are diseases and injuries of the cardiovascular system: the heart, the blood vessels of the heart, and the system of blood vessels throughout the body and within the brain. Cardiovascular disease accounts for the death of more Canadians than any other disease
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
Resources and tips on heart disease.
Source: Health Canada
Various useful terms & definitions
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
Learn the warning signs for heart attacks and stroke. It could help you, or a loved one, respond quickly in an emergency
Source: Veterans Affairs
Smoking is a major risk factor that contributes to a form of heart disease called cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular disease is a major cause of death in Canada
Source: Health Canada
Cardiovascular disease, once considered a 'man's disease', is the number one killer of Canadian women. Women's cardiovascular risk factors and symptoms differ from those of men. Women need to be educate about the symptoms of heart disease.
Source: Women's Health Matters
The Healthy Heart Kit is a risk management and patient education kit for the prevention of cardiovascular disease and the promotion of cardiovascular health. Its approach is primarily nonpharmacological. It has been designed for use by primary care physicians with their adult patients (18-64) who have one or more of the following CVD risk factors: smoking, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, obesity (overweight), sedentary lifestyle, diabetes.
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
Health Canada's role is to foster good health by promoting health and protecting Canadians from harmful products, practices and disease. Health Canada is developing new initiatives to encourage women and health providers to work together to promote healthy living and awareness of the risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease
Source: Health Canada
If you're a woman who has been diagnosed with heart disease, it doesn't mean that you've been issued a death sentence. You can make changes in your life to help prevent further damage to your heart.
Source: Canadian Health Network
Heart and lung illnesses and diseases are common in Canada, and there are many factors that can increase the chances of contracting them such as smoking and genetic predisposition. The role of air pollution as the underlying cause remains unclear but is the subject of considerable research.
Source: Health Canada
Lifestyle modification has long been known to help control high blood pressure. These new guidelines reveal that the cumulative effect of lifestyle modification can have a profound impact on blood pressure reduction.
Source: HealthyOntario.com
The following pages of this website will provide you with the most current cardiovascular disease statistics in Canada. You will be able to look at trends for cardiovascular disease mortality and hospital separations by province and territory, by age group, over time. Both graphs and tables will be displayed and instructions will be available for downloading the information to your personal computer.
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
Presents an overview of the key findings regarding the effect of diet, particularly dietary fat and carbohydrates, on plasma cholesterol levels. Examines how saturated, polyunsaturated, monounsaturated and trans fats in the diet and dietary cholesterol affect high and low density lipoprotein and total cholesterol levels. Includes bibliographical references. Link requires PDF reader.
Source: Canadian Marfan Association
Statistics Canada's data on high blood pressure
Source: Statistics Canada
The goal of The changing face of heart disease and stroke in Canada, the fifth in a series of reports from the Canadian Heart and Stroke Surveillance System (CHSSS), is to provide health professionals and policy makers with an overview of current trends in risk factors, interventions and services, and health outcomes of heart disease and stroke in Canada.
Source: Public Health Agency of Canada
A new study has found that moderate consumption of alcoholic beverages is associated with a reduced risk of subsequent diagnosis of heart disease or death attributed to it among women aged 40 or older, but not among men of the same age
Source: Statistics Canada
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